Steve Chapra teaches in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at
Tufts University, where he holds the Louis Berger Chair in Computing and Engineering.
His other books include Numerical Methods for Engineers and Surface Water-Quality
Modeling. Dr. Chapra received engineering degrees from Manhattan College and the University
of Michigan. Before joining the faculty at Tufts, he worked for the Environmental Protection
Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and taught at
Texas A&M University and the University of Colorado. His general research interests
focus on surface water-quality modeling and advanced computer applications in environmental
engineering. He has received a number of awards for his scholarly contributions, including the 1993
Rudolph Hering Medal (ASCE) and the 1987 Meriam/Wiley Distinguished Author Award
(American Society for Engineering Education). He has also been recognized as the outstanding
teacher among the engineering faculties at both Texas A&M University (1986
Tenneco Award) and the University of Colorado (1992 Hutchinson Award). | 
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